Toyota tops world car sales in November, outsells Volkswagen for fifth month

Toyota Motor Corp (7203. T) sold more cars compared to Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p. DE) for the fifth successive month in November, putting the Japanese firm on track to continue to be the world’s top-selling automaker in 2015 as sales at the German maker endure complying with a diesel discharges scandal.

Toyota, on Friday said group automobile sales completed 9.21 million in the January-November period, greater than the 9.10 million autos provided by Volkswagen during the same duration. Toyota has actually constantly outsold Volkswagen on a year-to-date basis since July.

Previously this month, Volkswagen stated its Volkswagen brand sales dropped 2.2 percent year-on-year in November, expanding a slide seen because October, the initial complete month after Europe’s greatest automaker admitted that it ripped off diesel emissions tests in a few of its vehicles.

Firm sales at Toyota in the year with November alleviated 1.0 percent from the previous year, while Volkswagen firm sales for the very same period dropped 1.7 percent.